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A 1954 erotic novel by Anne Desclos, written under the pseudonym "Pauline Réage". By far the most famous and generally considered the best-written piece of BDSM pornography. She wrote it to win back her lover, Jean Paulhan. The novel has become a major source of tropes for later [[BDSM]], although most of what Desclos describes existed in previous pornography. (The plot itself is closest to [[Marquis de Sade]]'s ''Philosophy In The Bedroom''.) Predictably, it was a major target of criticism by the French government, who tried to ban it, and later by (some) feminists, many of whom argued that the book was obviously written by a man. Desclos remained anonymous for four decades, during which time several movie adaptations were made, and someone else even published a sequel under the "Pauline Réage" pseudonym. She finally came clean in an interview with the ''[[New Yorker]]''.▼
| title = Story of O
| original title = Histoire d'O
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| author = Anne Desclos
| central theme = Alternative sexuality, Sex slavery
| elevator pitch = A young woman joins an underground BDSM group to appease her lover, and ends up learning about herself in the process
| genre = Erotic novel
| publication date = 1954
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| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
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▲A 1954 erotic novel by [[w:Anne Desclos|Anne Desclos]], written under the pseudonym "Pauline Réage"
The story is as follows: A photographer known only as O is taken by her lover to a chateau in Roissy, outside Paris. Here she is forced to become one of many sex slaves for a secret society of men, and is routinely beaten. All the same, she finds that she enjoys this role. Released from Roissy back into a version of her everyday life, she is enjoined by her lover to obey a series of rules. As time passes, O's lover asks her to help him in seducing her friend Jacqueline and bringing her to Roissy as well. At the same time, he "gives her" to his stepbrother, Sir Stephen. Stephen, in turn, turns O over to Samois, an all-female environment similar to Roissy, in which she is beaten and eventually pierced and branded. Finally, she agrees to seduce Jacqueline and Jacqueline's younger sister, as well.
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* [[Property of Love]]
* [[Purple Prose]]: Veers into this regularly
* [[Slave Brand]]: O is expected to wear a slave tag, attached to her Labia piercing
* [[A Taste of the Lash]]
* [[The Untwist]]: Possibly a case of an [[Unbuilt Trope]]. Anyone remotely familiar with modern BDSM fiction, especially on the internet, would have thought the fact that Sir Stephan planned to brand O was painfully obvious when they said she was going to be marked in a "more permanent way."
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